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Sam & Max Series Coming to the Wii

Telltale Games announced today that Season One of its hit episodic adventure game series Sam & Max would be hitting Nintendo's family-friendly console this fall. Sam and Max, a canine detective and his hyper-violent rabbity-thing sidekick, were the creations of cartoonist Steve Purcell. After one appearance in a computer game (1993's Sam & Max Hit the Road), the pair went unseen for over a decade until Telltale Games brought the duo back from obilivion via a series of episodic games released for the PC.

According to Telltale's press release, Season One, a compilation of the first six "episodes" of the PC series is being brought to the Wii thanks to overwhelming fan demand. Season One followed the adventure of the Freelance Police as a plague of hypnosis sweeps across America, turning its citizens into mindless drooling TV-addicted zombies. In each episode, the pair must take on ever-greater villains including a washed-out 70's sitcom actor peddling hypnotic videocassettes, an Oprah-like talk-show host who's taken her audience hostage, a casino run by Mafiosi Teddy Bears, a giant robot Abraham Lincoln and the Internet itself.

Since its debut, the pair has garnered considerable critical acclaim, including reaching number nine on GameSpy's Top 10 PC Games of 2007. Publishing duties in the North American market will be handled by Dreamcatcher/The Adventure Company while JoWood is handling the European release. According to the release, the European releases will have localized French and German soundtracks and will be subtitled in Spanish and Italian.